. >> in a rare recorded interview obtained by cnn, larry hall recounts a tough start. >> i know when i was born my mother told me that i was blue. that i hadn't got enough oxygen to me or something. >> identical twin sons growing up hard. in the hall home there was little money and lots of problems. author hillel levin interviewed larry hall. >> it was a very cluttered household. they were raised with dysfunction. >> neighbors say their mother was domineering, their father drank and sometimes turned violent. he worked at the local cemetery. >> what was it like growing up next to a cemetery? was it creepy? >> no. not at all. not for me. you know, at 12 years of age larry and i started working at the cemetery. >> as he grew older, larry had problems fitting in at school. >> he was always the backward twin. i was the more dominant, outgoing twin. he hung out with what my wife and i and a lot of fellow classmates called the misfits, or the stinky crowd. >> still, the boys were best friends and as young men garry and larry developed a unusual new hobby as civil war re-enactors. >> i met a